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Kong Enteprise Gateway

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CVE-2026-14916 Sep 16, 10:11 HIGH PATCH This Week

Signature-verification bypass in Kong API Gateway Enterprise lets an unauthenticated remote attacker present a forged JWT that the gateway accepts as valid, defeating token-based authentication for the MCP OAuth2 and DataKit integration code paths. The vulnerable logic fails to confirm that the JWT's declared signing algorithm is compatible with the key type actually used for verification, so an attacker who can reach a protected endpoint that relies on these integrations can slip through as an authenticated principal; the independent assessment scopes the impact to the backend resources the gateway protects (C:H/I:H under a changed-scope CVSS:3.1 vector) rather than to the gateway host itself. Exposure is gated by configuration - gateways that do not enable MCP OAuth2 or DataKit JWT validation are not reachable - and no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Kong Kong Enteprise Gateway
NVD
CVSS 4.0
7.7
CVSS 7.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Signature-verification bypass in Kong API Gateway Enterprise lets an unauthenticated remote attacker present a forged JWT that the gateway accepts as valid, defeating token-based authentication for the MCP OAuth2 and DataKit integration code paths. The vulnerable logic fails to confirm that the JWT's declared signing algorithm is compatible with the key type actually used for verification, so an attacker who can reach a protected endpoint that relies on these integrations can slip through as an authenticated principal; the independent assessment scopes the impact to the backend resources the gateway protects (C:H/I:H under a changed-scope CVSS:3.1 vector) rather than to the gateway host itself. Exposure is gated by configuration - gateways that do not enable MCP OAuth2 or DataKit JWT validation are not reachable - and no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis.

Authentication Bypass Kong Kong Enteprise Gateway
NVD

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